Knowledging across life’s curriculum

blog(re)jects

Update: A few problems with the pictures. Now they should be more stable. And change of title, shorter yet telling.

After such serious debates about objects as credible participants in conversation and the importance of an internet of things; I could not help but hear a different type of conversation from all those “things” that litter our world. Can you smell the storyline?
Here is a satirical visual take on the subject
Excerpt from Julian Bleecker’s Why Things Matter (All in good fun Julian )

Blogjects: Some Characteristics
Blogjects have some rudimentary characteristics, [...] Here are three peculiarities of Blogjects:

✦ Blogjects track and trace where they are and where they’ve been;

✦ Blogjects have self-contained (embedded) histories of their encounters and experiences

✦ Blogjects always have some form of agency — they can foment [ferment] action and participate; they have an assertive voice within the [ecological] social web.

Julian Bleecker further adds about the pigeon that blogs (a pigeon equipped with a device that retransmits flight path and polution levels):

Whereas once the pigeon was an urban varmint whose value as a participant in the larger social collective was practically nil or worse,the Pigeon that Blogs now attains first-class citizen status. Their importance quickly shifts from common nuisance and a disgusting menace, to a participant in life and death discussions.

Perhaps we should equip our disposable consumer objects with some sort of tracing device to elevate our mountains of garbage to useful status. However i think they “blog” loud and clear without. Another option would be to use objects to track and report on delinquent citizen activity!

Identifying what is worth tracing and who does the collecting is another matter all together. Isn’t this already happening?…remember big brother; so many cameras everywhere!

YES THINGS DO MATTER they tell trace stories in more ways than one!
Why aren’t we listening?